Gallery Focuses on Fine Arts
There’s a new little gallery in the Downtown Melbourne local art scene that offers a powerful impact in its diversity and freshness. Located in the Galleria on East New Haven Avenue, SBG Fine Arts Gallery offers a venue for alternative art forms. It is owned and operated by Susan B. Giblin, an exceptional artist in her own right.
SBG Fine Arts Gallery spotlights artists from Central Florida, focusing mainly on the many talented artists in Brevard County. Unlike most galleries in the area, SBG features one artist every four to six weeks. Giblin believes giving patrons the opportunity to focus on an individual artist’s body of work helps them appreciate the artist’s point of view and enjoy a full artistic experience.
“I also like to focus on artists who are producing new, different and exciting work and I love really big pieces, though that’s not a criteria to showing here,” Giblin said.
The Gallery recently had a highly successful show featuring Jamie Meagher, a local muralist who also creates whimsical images cut and painted on old skateboards.
“Susan’s gallery did an amazing job of showcasing my work and introducing it to a new audience,” Meagher said. “SBG’s focus on showing a wide variety of local work which might not otherwise find an outlet is exactly what the area needs.”
Opened in the spring 2019, the gallery has featured Melbourne glass artist Vera Sattler, black-and-white photographer Bear Hines from Melbourne Beach, Melbourne abstract expressionist Jeff Filipski, outsider abstract artist Kyle Heinly, mixed media sculptor Katherine McElhinny, impressionistic painter Heather Nagy from Orlando and mixed media painter Mark Palmer of Rockledge.
In March, Giblin will be premiering her own work in a new series of pointillism paintings along with soft sculpture artist Ruthann Heinly. The gallery will be celebrating its first anniversary in April with a show featuring seascape and portrait artist Lynda Kodwyc.
Susan reflected on her first year in Downtown Melbourne: “I was told my vision of one-artist shows, highlighting artists who work in subject matters which are very different from the ‘norm,’ wouldn't fly. I was told ‘this isn't New York, no one will accept your vision. People don’t pay for abstract here. They won’t show up.’
SBG Fine Arts Gallery
818 East New Haven Ave., Melbourne
321-591-9154
Instagram: @sbgfineartagallery
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